Possible Clues:

• *What a writer hopes to write
• It sounds as though you'll get wonderful wine from this book
• If you want very good 11 across, get it in volume from this, by the sound of it
• Something like hot cake in popular cookbook, say
• Author's success
• Any John Grisham novel
• Superior selection of wines, we hear, which has sold a lot
• Sounds as if the finest wine is to be found there in volume
• Top actor almost becomes top author
• Book having success after footballer's decapitated bank clerk